Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-24
BEFORE SHUTDOWN
=. IN II That You Forgive Your
''' Enemies Before the Sun
Sets This Day.
Mn, Who is Least to Blame in the
IT. Case Make the First 0vsrtures
at Reconciliation.
rake Your Choice, Either Forgive
IOu OHH 1roemtes or Have God Re
fuse to Pardon You

PROOKLYNI Wv 80
On DAO T,lmsge, ID, preached in the
WIEN tabernacle this morning On the
BfOU1 nt. Forgiveness before Sun
suun After explaining some passages
Cow ming Hezekiah, DR.. Talmage gave
cOL 80 following hymn, which was sung
- tbe congregation;
v .Tb,s glorious hope revlves
nTT Courage by the way,
while each In expectation iiVes
And longs to see the day."
,...ssor Henry Eyre Browne rendered
The organ an aria with variations, by
On+- The text of the sermon was
U .. Epbesians iv.-26: "Let not the
w. ~" On down upon your wrath" DR..
LS Wbsf . pillow embroidered
OF ALL CoLoRs
A. tho diving day. The cradle Of clouds
assI mich the sun rises is beautiful
HUI u,b INIT it is surpassed by the many
ep DS"rsed msusoleum in which at evening it
e~'Srried. Sunset among the mountains!
T. .Imost takes ones breath away to re-
i.n the scene. The long shadows stretch
no. t"r over the plain make the glory of the
la W. light, on the tiptop cregs and
utInck sslsnt through the foliage, the
no-o trsnspicuous. Saffron and gold,
n I'M and crimson commingled. All the
ppssiIes of cloud in confagrntion. Burn
mo MoscoWs on the sky. Hanging gar
ANS Of roses at their deepest blush. Ban
uo[e Of y.por, red as if from carnage, in
tSo hattie of the elements. The hunter
mon. an the Adirondacks, and the
STss vilIager among the Alps
NOW what is sunset among the
Mountains, After q storm Ct sea
the rolling grandeur into which the sun
GOES down TO bsthe at nightfall is some
ming TO make weird and splendid dreams
o1t IF for lifetime. Alexander Smith
in his poem compares the sunset to the
mb.rren beach of hell" but this wonder
fri spectscle of nature makes me think of
the Furnished wall of heaven. Paul in
prison writing My text remembers soma
Of the gorgeous sunsets among the noun
tsns Of Asia Minor, and how he had
often seen the towers of Damascus blaze
in tbe close Of the Oriental days, and he
FISHES out that memory in the text when
he saws: "Let not the sun go down upon
your wrath"
Sublime and all-suggestive duty for
people then and people now. Forgive
ness before shutdown. He who new. r
feels the throo of indignation is imbeciIe.
He who can walk among the injustices Of
the world,
INFLICTED UPON HIMSELF
and others, without flush of cheek, or
ouit ne &c
either in sympathy with wrong or semi
Z idiotiC. When Ananias, the high priest,
ordered the constables Of the courtroom
to smite Paul in the mouth, Paul fired up
and said: "God shall smite thee, thou
Whited we'll" In the sentence imme-
distelY before my text, Paul commands
the EphesiGns: "Be We angry and sin
not" II al depends on what you are
mad at and how long the feeling lasts
whether anger is right or wrong.
Life is full Of exasperRtions. Saul
after David, SuccOth after Gideon,
KOrah after Moses, the Pasquins after
Augustus, the PharSsees after Christ,
and every one has had his pursuers, aud
We are sWindled, or belied, or misrepre-
sented, or prosecuted, or in some way
WTOnged, and the danger is that health
full Indignation shSll become baleful
spite, snd that our feelings settle down
into prolonged outpouring of temper
dspleasing to God and ruinous to our
selves, and hence the important ipjunc-
ton OF the text: "Let not the sun go
down upon your wrath"
Why that limitation to ones anger?
Why that period Of flaming vapor set to
punctuate flaming disposition? What
has the sunset got TO do with ones re-
senttul emotions? Was it haphaZ 4rd
sentiment written by Paul without special
significance? No, no; l think of five
reasons why we should not let the sun
set before our temper sets.
l, Because twelve hours is long enough
10 De cross about any wrong inflicted
upon Us. Nothing is so exhsusIing to
physical health or mental faculty as
piorsc!ed indulgence of ill-humor. It
toeks the nervous system. It
Aurts the digestion. 1t heats the
Diood in brain and heart until
Inc whole body is first oVerheated and
taen depressed. Beside that, it sours
tne disposition, turns one aside from his
lsgitlmate work, eXpends energies that
Vugot to be better employed, and does
Us more harm than II does our antagon-
Ss' Paul gives US good, wide allow
ance OF time for legitimate denunciation,
nom non o'clock to O'Clock, but says:
SFop there!" Watch the descending
pro OF day, and when it reaches the
horizon
TAKE A REEF
your disposition. Unloose your collar
aoa cool of. Change the subject to
sSometaing delightfully."- pleasant Unrou
!ouF light fist and shake hands with some
Sue' Bank up the fires at the curfew
zen. Drive the growing dog of enmity
OacE 70 its kennel. The hours of this
-l,n will pass by and the afternoon
MN arriVe, and the sun will begin to set,
snu oeg you on its blHzing hearth throw
~ n your feuds, invectives and satires. sis
Otuer things being equal, the man who
,bes cool temper will come out
"sesu' An old essaylst says that the
TTeieorated John Henderson, of Bristol,
nSisI was at dining party where politi-
%. excitement ran high and the debate
sOs angry, and while Henderson was
~ tis"AIng his opponent, unable to answer
n argument, dashed glass
I r. VINE In hi, face, when the speaker de,
.ns ateiy wiped the liquid from his face
NO. sAlo "Tbis, sir, is q depression;
mo,,, YOU please, for the main argu-
hs1r While worldly philosophy could
AeiL out very few tn such eouinoise of